Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
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Genesis 15:21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
Exodus 15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Numbers 13:29Amalek dwells in the land of the Negev: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."
Deuteronomy 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deuteronomy 6:1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:1
Moses in this chapter exhorts Israel, I. In general, to keep God's commandments, ver. 11, 12 . II. In particular, and in order to that, to keep themselves pure from all communion with idolaters. 1. They must utterly destroy the seven devoted nations, and not spare them, or make leagues with them, ver. 1, 2 , 16 , 24 . 2. They must by no means marry with the remainders of them, ver. 3, 4 . 3. They must deface and consume their altars and images, and not so much as take the silver and gold of them to their own use,… Read the whole commentary →